Social identities and language alternation in non-formal institutional bilingual talk: Trilingual service encounters in Barcelona  

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TORRAS, MARIA-CARME

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language in Society (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 31 no. 4 (Sep. 2002), page 527–548..
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Identity-related accounts of language alternation among bilingual speakers have traditionally drawn on the social values of the languages involved in specific communities (Gumperz 1982, Myers-Scotton 1993). However, re- cently researchers have expressed reservation against this approach (Woot- ton and Sebba 1998, Li Wei 1998, 2002). Following from this, Gafaranga 2001 argues that, in order to account for the orderliness of language alter- nation, language preference (Auer 1984) must be seen as a membership categorization device (Sacks 1966, 1974). In developing his argument, Gafaranga draws on instances of ordinary everyday conversation among bilingual speakers. In this paper, we take Gafaranga’s argument a step fur- ther and look at language alternation in first-time trilingual service en- counters collected in the Barcelona area. The languages involved are Catalan, Castilian, and English. Analysis of these data reveals that, in addi- tion to doing service-relevant tasks, participants accomplish “medium- related activities” (Gafaranga 2001) drawing on their various linguistic identities . Therefore, the analysis confirms the need to see linguistic iden- tities as social identities in their own right

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